The Abolishment Of Capital Punishment In Australia

Capital Punishment is punishment of a crime by death. The death penalty was abolished in Queensland in 1922, New South Wales in 1955, Tasmania in 1968, Victoria in 1975, South Australia in 1976 and Western Australia in 1984. Since that time debate has raged as whether or not capital punishment should be re-introduced. This essay examines the case for and the case against the use of capital punishment. One of the main reasons against capital punishment was abolished in Australia was …

…capital punishments to deter people from committing a crime; life imprisonment is said not to be as equally effective as a deterrent and would expose prison staffs and fellow prisoners to dangerous murderers. This risk may extend to the community, as convicted criminals may escape or be pardoned and paroled. People opposed to capital punishment maintain that the justice system cannot ever be 100 percent accurate and the effects on society that planned killing may have.